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Magnitude4.1

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M4.1 earthquake 171 km NNE of Lospalos, Timor Leste

Saturday, March 4, 2006, 04:28:55 UTC · 7.135°S, 127.699°E

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck 171 km NNE of Lospalos, Timor Leste on Saturday, March 4, 2006, 04:28:55 UTC, at a depth of 44.5 km (shallow).

Magnitude
4.1
Light · mb
Depth
45 km
Shallow
Felt reports
0
Did You Feel It?
Est. shaking
—
No ShakeMap
PAGER alert
None
Not issued
Tsunami
No flag
USGS feed

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In context

How big was it, and why here?

Energy released

21 tons of TNT

That is about 1/707 of the Hiroshima bomb. A magnitude 5.0 releases about 22 times more energy.

Tectonic setting

8 km

from the nearest mapped plate boundary, between the Banda Sea and Timor plates. Earthquakes cluster along boundaries like this one, where plates collide, pull apart or slide past each other.

Depth: shallow

45 km

Shallow earthquakes (under 70 km) produce the strongest surface shaking for their size, so they are the ones most likely to cause damage near the epicenter.

Did You Feel It?

Where it was felt

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USGS PAGER estimate

Who was exposed to shaking

USGS publishes PAGER impact estimates for significant earthquakes, usually within an hour. No PAGER estimate is available for this event.

After the main event

Aftershocks within 50 km

USGS has not published any M2.5+ earthquake within 50 km in the 30 days after this event.

Regional history

Past M5+ earthquakes within 300 km

USGS lists 893 M5.0+ earthquakes within 300 km before this one (catalog from 1900; older records are less complete). The strongest:

  1. 8.11963 Banda Sea EarthquakeNovember 4, 1963 · 211 km E of this epicenter
  2. 7.7Banda SeaNovember 2, 1950 · 167 km E of this epicenter
  3. 7.6196 km S of Ambon, IndonesiaJanuary 27, 2006 · 191 km N of this epicenter
  4. 7.3145 km NNE of Lospalos, Timor LesteAugust 30, 1917 · 26 km S of this epicenter
  5. 7.3172 km NE of Lospalos, Timor LesteNovember 24, 1983 · 64 km SE of this epicenter
  6. 7.2187 km N of Baukau, Timor LesteFebruary 11, 1969 · 129 km W of this epicenter
  7. 7.258 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor LesteSeptember 29, 1905 · 130 km S of this epicenter
  8. 7.1196 km SSE of Ambon, IndonesiaJuly 4, 1914 · 268 km NE of this epicenter

History · NOAA

Deadliest earthquakes in this area

NOAA’s significant-earthquake database lists 6 damaging, deadly or tsunami-generating earthquakes within 300 km of this epicenter since 1700, which together caused about 7 recorded deaths. The most severe:

  1. 1763

    Bandaneira

    12 Sep 1763 · 284 km away · intensity X

    7 deathsModerate damage ($1–5M)tsunami

  2. 1963M8.3

    Banda Sea

    4 Nov 1963 · 210 km away

    Limited damage (under $1M)

  3. 1918M8.1

    Banda Sea

    18 Nov 1918 · 144 km away

  4. 1950M8.1

    Banda Sea

    2 Nov 1950 · 211 km away

  5. 1917M7.8

    Banda Sea

    30 Aug 1917 · 52 km away

  6. 2006M7.6

    Banda Sea

    27 Jan 2006 · 191 km away

NOAA NCEI Global Significant Earthquake Database. Historical figures are estimates; older records are incomplete.

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